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# Features

For details on the installation and set-up of the Comsof Fiber Integration Module, refer to the Comsof Fiber Integration Installation and Configuration Guide in the Comsof Fiber Integration Module Documentation. For details of the functionality, refer to the Comsof Fiber Integration User Guide.

The following changes have been made in the Comsof Integration Module:

## Comsof Fiber feature set

The Comsof Fiber Integration Module includes the set of Comsof Fiber features that support a smooth workflow of Network Manager Telecom users who are working on brownfield network design.

## Workflow Improvements

To facilitate a seamless workflow between Network Manager Telecom and Comsof Fiber and let users move forward logically while editing data, these improvements have been made:

- Edits to the GeoPackage intermediate file are allowed to carry forward to the Network Manager Telecom database during import.

- Incremental export from Network Manager Telecom to GeoPackage allowing updates to exported GeoPackage if changes have occurred in the master database.

## General Usability Improvements

To reduce the time that users need to spend on workflows they use frequently, the following usability improvements have been implemented:

- The Workspace dialog has been made more intuitive.

- Rules files handling:

  - The workflow and user interface for handling Rules files has been rationalized.

  - Rules file templates have been updated to Comsof Fiber v.24.2.3.87.

  - Workspace-specific Rules files now get the workspace ID suffixed to their name.

- At the configuration level, the following default settings have been included:

  - Output in CDIF format.

  - Cost per Node when new workspaces are created.

- The mechanism for locking features has been improved as well as the way to visualize them.

  - In the layers toolbar a lock button is available allowing to lock/unlock all the features in that layer.

  - In the Details panel, buttons are available when using the Multiple Select tool to lock/unlock all the selected features.

  - The styling for rendering locked features has been adapted to make them stand out.

- Feature attributes handling:

  - The value for the Include fields in Comsof `IN_ features` is set to `true` by default.

  - The Include_comsof attribute is now added to mapped Network Manager Telecom features.

  - Boolean attributes required for Comsof have been added.

- The Antenna and pedestal structures have been added to Network Manager Telecom as well as the corresponding mappings onto Comsof features.

  Interactions with the Comsof Cloud queue have been smoothed.

- Default version number for Comsof Fiber now refers to the latest version (24.2.3.87).

- Coordinate system is no longer configurable on the workspace directly

## Authentication on Comsof Cloud and Licence Servers

To ensure security, authentication is provided on both the Cloud and the Licence server.

## CDIF Improvements

The following improvements to the CDIF handling have been implemented:

- A mapping setting of `no_blank_overwrite_fields` can now be added to a `feature_type` CDIF mapping. This is to prevent existing values in NMT from being overwritten with blank/empty values in CDIFs imported via the `comsof_ws_cdif` importer.

- A check is now performed on the presence of a GISTOOL_ID column containing an NMT URN to identify an update to an existing record. An NMT URN can also be provided in the ID column to indicate an existing record.

- Feature fields related to specifications are now automatically populated upon import where a specification is included in the CDIF.

## Performance Improvements

Based on benchmarking of typical workspaces performance has been optimized in order to reduce calculation and run-through times.